Joseph de susini



, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH DE sUsINI, on NEW YORK, n. Y.

PROCESS AND ,MANUFACTUlRE os- ClGARETTE-WRAPPERS, cw.

BPECIPIFCA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,300, datedOctober 13, 1885.

Application filed September 10, 1884. Serial No. 142,737. (No model.) l

.To all whom) it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH DE SUsInI, a British-born subject, residingat 221 West Fifteenth street, of New York, in the county of New York andState of N cw York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inthe Process and Wrappers, 8w. and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact descripv tion of the invention, which willenable others skilled in the art to this specification. I

This invention relates to certain improve ments in wrappers forcigarettes, cigars, and like articles and for similar purposes; and ithas for its object to provide a wrapper which will possess none of thedeleterious properties I ulated.

The principal objection to the cigarettes' of the ordinary paperwrappe'rs, while it will be cheaper, stronger, and more easily manipforinstance, when constructed in the usual manner, with an ordinary paperwrapper-is that the products of combustion of the burning paper areunhealthy and injurious on account I of the material from which thepaper is made,

and/also because of the deleterious chemicals which are employed in thecourse of the manufacture and left in the product.

By the present invention these objections are completely obviated byforming the wrap- 'pers for the cigarettes,

. rendering the result uniform, strong, and pliable, so that it can berolled without breaking, as more fully hereinafter specified.

Having designated the nature and objects of my invention, I will nowdescribe the means for carrying the same into effect. l

I first take any desired quantity. of quicklime and slake it in aquantity of water sufficicnt to effect the slaking and form a denseManufacture of Oigarcttewhich it appertains to make and use the same,reference be had to milky mixture, which will be eat-m smooth mentioneddense milk I then add pure water in such quantity as to dissolvethewholc of the lime. The li aid or solution is then placed in asuitable tank and heated by steam jacket or coil to the boiling-point,when the tobacco,

powder, or in the form of a mixture of the 1y mixed with the boilingliquid. When a sufficient quantity of the tobacco material has beenadded, the tank or vessel is tightly covered-and'active ebullition iskept up for a length of time, varying in accordance with the characterand condition of said tobacco ten ortwelve hours. The steam is then shuted, and the watery portions of the mass are solid. portions of boiledtObflOCOt After said watery portion of the mass has been drained oil thecover of the tank is removed, and the obtained either by a percolationor by a (lecootion or hot infusionof leaves, stems, stalks, or powder oftobacco, or of a mixture of the same.

the solid portions of boiled tobacco material the mass of tobacco matterin the vessel. The mass is then transferred to a beating or pulpingengine, where itis subjected to the act on or less,) and it is admixedin the said beating or pulping engine with sugarcane pith, calledcommonly bagasse, or i with any suitable vegetable matter or fiber,(with the exception harmless, and that it possesses the requisitestrength to re-enforce the tobacco pulp and form a scale or sheet ofproper strength when finished. During the beating in the pulpingenginefresh water saturated with either of the constantly admitted and drainedoii into receptacles, where it is kept momentaneously for subsequentimmediate use. From the beatand without clods or lumps. To theabovcsame, is fed slowly into the tank and thorough- When said juiceohasthoroughly permeated,

hereinafter stated,) provided it is neutral and ing-engine the pulp iscarried'or transferred either in the form of leaves, stems, stalks, or

material, the usual time being from eight to' then drained off in anyconvenient manner from the leaves, stems, stalks, powder, or

latter is filled with new cold water, which has been previouslysaturated with tobacco-juice.

contained in the tank, it is drawn off, leaving of boaters for fromeight to ten'hours, (more juices of tobacco herein-above described isafter which it is calendered or glazed or con veniently compressed.During the progress of the pulp on the webbing-machine the former may bedusted or sprinkled on one or both faces by means of any suitabledevices with tobacco powder or dust, which is incorporated with thescales or sheets of webbed pulp, forming thereon a thin coating orcovering of pure tobacco.

To the said tobacco powder or dust thus applied, or at any other periodof the processes, may be added any flavoring-matter, such askillikinick, cascarilla, coffee, or the like, in a state of powder ordust, to give to the wrapper any distinctive or desired flavor andhygienic conditions.

In order to avoid the objectionable reddish and blackish colors that theash of the usual paperwrappers assumes when burned, such alkalies assoda, potash, and the like are ontirely dispensed with in the treatmentof the tobacco in leaves, stems, stalks, or powder, or of theirmixtures, and all use of deleterious chemicals is carefully avoided.

For the purpose of insuring the proper color of natural tobacco to thefinished wrapper various neutral and harmless coloring-matters may beadded in powder or otherwise to the same at any stage of the processesherein described.

. Sheets of suitable vegetable matters or fibers above indicated can be,if desired, made and coated or covered on one or both faces with a webof pure tobacco pulp, or with a web of tobacco pulp mixed to theabove-indicated suitable vegetable matters or fibers, or with tobaccopowder or dust, and the whole thoroughly incorporated by the action ofthe rollers of the webbing-machine.

The vegetable matters employed in connection with the tobacco pulp, ashereinbefore mentioned, may consist of sugar-cane pith, commonly calledbagasse, or of any other suitable neutral or harmless vegetable matmadein the usual manner from pulp, and that the pulp has been washed inclear water before its formation into paper; but I .am not aware thatthe pulp for forming tobacco-paper has ever heretofore been washed inthejuices of tobacco, whereby said juices are utilized for enriching thepulp with the tobacco decoction that heretofore has been wasted.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is what follows, viz:

1. The process herein described of preparing tobacco pulp in atightly-closed vessel for the manufacture of wrappers for cigarettes,cigars, and like articles or for other similar purposes, the sameconsisting in digesting the leaves, stems, stalks, powder, dust, orother portions of the tobacco-plant, separately or together, withlime-milk, draining off said liquid, and subjecting the tobacco matterthus treated to the action of a beating or pulping engine and to aconstant washing with juice of tobacco matter obtained by decoction orhot infusion, or by percolation, substantially as set forth.

2. The process herein described of producin g wrappers for cigarettes,cigars, and like articles, or for other similar purposes, consisting ofthe following steps, to wit: first, slaking a desired quantity ofquicklime in a quantity of water sufficient to effect the 'slaking andform a dense and smooth milky mixture without clods or lumps; second,adding to said milk sufficient pure water to dissolve the whole of thelime; third, digesting the tobacco matter with the above liquid at 'aboilipg-point in a tight closed vessel; fourth, drawing off said liquid;fifth, subjecting the tobacco matter to the action of a beating orpulping engine, with an admixture of suitable neutral and harmlessvegetable matter or fiber, such as those herein above described, andsixth, finally, forming the same into lamelliform or rolled, andlamellated, .and calendered or glazed, or compressed scales or sheets,substantially as set forth.

3. The process herein described of forming wrappers for cigarettes,cigars, and like articles, or for other similar purposes, by coating orcovering the web of tobacco pulp alone or admixed to the suitablevegetable matters or fibers herein-above mentioned while being formedinto scales or sheets, with powdered tobacco, and incorporating the sameby the action of the rollers of the webbing-machine, substantially asset forth.

4. The process herein described of producing wrappers for cigarettes,cigars, and like articles, and for other similar purposes,conable"vegetable matters or fibers herein-above described, and coatingor covering them on one or both faces with a web of pure tobacco pulp,or with a web of tobacco pulp mixed to the suitable vegetable matters orfibers above mentioned, or with tobacco powder or dust, substantially asset forth.

5. A wrapper for cigarettes, cigars, and like articles, or for othersimilar purposes, formed of lamelliform, or rolledand lamellated, andglazed 0r calendered, or compressed pulp of tobacco matter, either aloneor combined with.

sisting in forming scales or sheets of the suitany of the suitablevegetable matters or fibers IOO above mentioned, and either flavored orartificially colored or not, substantially as set f. 1th.

6. A wrapper for cigarettes, cigars, and like articles, or for othersimilar purposes, formed of lamelliform, or rolled and lamellated, andglazed or calendered, or compressed pulp of tobacco matter, either aloneor combined with any of the suitable vegetable matters or fibersherein-above described, and coated or covered with tobacco powder ordust on one or both faces, substantially as described'and set forth.

7. A wrapper for cigarettes, cigars, and like articles, orfor othersimilar purposes oflamelliform, or rolled and lamellated, and glazed orfaces with a web of pure tobacco pulp, or with calendered, or compressedpulp of any of the vegetable matters or fibers herein-above described,coated or covered on one or both a web of tobacco pulp mixed to any ofthe above suitabl'e' vegetable matters or fibers, or with tobacco powderor dust, substantlally as set forth.

'In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH DE SUSINI; Witnesses; t

JEFFERSON PATTEN, LAWRENCE J mENEs.

